The Agony Of Choice

pczone.co.uk:

What it can’t cut through though is the din of fevered debate that has been raging on in my head for the last few days now. Frustrated, I pick up my phone to check another benchmark and compare another spec – this is at least the 10th time I’ve done this since getting into bed a few hours earlier – and it’s unlikely to be the last.

Welcome to my mind when there’s a major technological decision to be made…

It all started a few days back when I came to the realisation that my current computer setup was not ideal for my needs. I emphasise ideal as, you’d probably imagine, it is perfectly adequate at executing all the daily tasks I require it to. However, I’ve never been one to settle for “it’ll do” when it comes to my technology products; and considering I spend at least several hours a day in front of my computer, it was a no-brainer that my brain would eventually cotton on to this glaring deficiency and redirect all mental resources to its successful resolution!

Here it is in a nutshell – I own a very nice gaming laptop, hooked up to a very nice 24 inch monitor. I play the occasional PC game these days (most of my gaming time is now on console), but the vast majority of my time spent is on: video editing, photo editing, audio editing, web editing…ya know, major EDITING. This machine although powerful for its type, is not ideally suited to the these tasks, due its miniaturised internals limiting its capability, I never actually use it is a laptop as all my work is done from home and (almost most importantly) MY GOD it’s noisy when I’m rendering something. As for the screen, although it’s high quality with various noteworthy features such as g-sync and a 144hz refresh rate, it lacks decent colour accuracy, suffers from acute